"The Outsider," also known as "The Stranger," is a novel by Albert Camus that was published in 1942. ... Throughout the novel, Camus focuses strongly on the fundamental values of society, and how society tolerates people who do not conform to these values. Camus achieves this by incorporating aspects of existentialist philosophy in the novel. ... Camus feels that one exists only in the world physically and therefore the presence or absence of meaning in one's life is alone revealed through that event which he or she is experiencing at a particular moment. ...

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Existentialism is defined as a philosophical movement or tendency, emphasizing individual existence, freedom and choice that influence many diverse writers in the 19th and 20th centuries. The actual term "existentialism" came from Jean Paul Sartre, a French philosopher. He combined the theories of t...

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Albert Einstein was undoubtedly one of the greatest thinkers of his time. ... Albert Camus, a Frenchman existentialist writer who furthered the thoughts of Nietzsche, noticed the absurdity of man striving for order and coherence in a world that was so consistently in a state of disorder and incoherence. ...

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